Oil-burner.



no. 710,999. Patented oet. 7, |902.

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OIL BURNER.

(Application led Jan. 2, 1902.)

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\ M ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES vWILLIAM SIEVERT, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

OIL-BURNER.

SPECIFTLCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,899, dated October '7, 1902. Application filed January 2, 1902, Serial No 818,124. (No model.)

To a/ZZ 'Lt-7mm, it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLEs WILLIAM SIE- VERT, acitizen of the United States,and a resident of Los Angeles, inthe countyof Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and improved Oil-Burner, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a device for burning oils, particularly the heavy oils, such as crude petroleum, and comprises certain novel features of construction by which I am enabled effectively to gasify the oil and mix it with air, so as to obtain thorough combustion.

This specification is a specific description of one form of the invention, while the claims are definitions of the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accom panying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure l is a sectional view of the invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan view partly broken away and in section.

a indicates the walls of the structure in connection with which the burner is used. This may be a stove, a fireplace, er any other device desired.

l) indicates the base-plate of the burner, this being set between the walls, as shown, and having two openings h' therein. These openings lead to an arched or U-shaped pipe c, which has at its middle a downwardly-opening branch c'.

- d indicates the oil-pipe, which passes up through the center of the base-plate l) and projects into the branch c of the U-shaped or arched pipe c. The oil is discharged from the upper end of the pipe d.

c indicates a two-part cup which is placed on the base-plate b under the pipe c, the branch c' discharging into the cup-and the oil-pipe d passing through it, as shown.

f indicates an oriiiced disk, which is placed at the end of the branch c of the pipe c in order to reduce the discharge-opening thereof, this disk leaving, however, a passage from the branch c to thecup e around the pipe d.

To start the operation of the burner,a quantity of oil is introduced into the cup and ignited. This will heat the adjacent parts, and

form a readily-combustible mixture.

then the supply of oil through the pipe d is turned on. This oil as it issues from the pipe is met by a current of air passing through the branch c of the pipe c and downward into the cup e. This air is heated,'and the oil, upon the action of Athe heated air, and after engaging the heated parts of the burner, is vapor-ized and mixed with the air, so as to The pipe c and the surrounding parts being hot will induce currents of air to pass into the openings b' and out the branch c, owing to the fact that heated air tends to' rise and the openings h' are lower than the opening of the branch cl. When the burner is working normally, the flame in outer parts of cup e will create a draft through the branch c', and thus tend to assist the action explained above. As the operation of the burner goes on the parts become more heated, and the effectiveness is therefore increased.

The burner may be used in innumerable connections, as will be apparent to persons skilled in the art.

Various changes in the form and details of my invention may be resorted to at will without departing from the spirit of my invention. Hence I consider myself entitled to all forms ofthe invention as may lie Within the intent of my claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. An oil-burner, comprising a base-plate, an air-pipe communicating with an opening therein and having a downwardly-projecting open branch, an oil-cup into which the branch of the air-pipe discharges, and means constituting an oil-supply, said means leading to the cup adjacent to the air-pipe discharge.

2. An oil-burner, comprising a base-plate with openings therein, an arched pipe, the ends of which communicate with the openings, said pipe having a downwardly-directed intermediate branch constituting an outlet, a cup located below said branch, and an oilsupply pipe passing downward through the cup directly under the branch of the air-pipe.

An oil-burner,comprisinga curved openended air-pipe having a central downwardlyprojecting open branch, a cup into which the IOO into the oil-cup, an oil-supply pipe leading' up through the partition of the oil-cup into the branch of the air-pipe, and an apertured disk at the end of the branch and surrounding the oil-supply pipe.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of 2o two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES WILLIAM SIEVERT.

Witnesses:

D. M. MoDoNALD, CURT P. DIETZE. 

